if they are young employees (most are), there is a good bet they'll sell the sh*t out of their stock because time is not an issue for the young. besides, they have apple handhelds to buy and money to blow on the latest model car/clothes/booze, etc etc. true happiness in life is owning alot of sh*t. every young person knows that. the TV told them so!

Linux_Yes:if they are young employees (most are), there is a good bet they'll sell the sh*t out of their stock because time is not an issue for the young. besides, they have apple handhelds to buy and money to blow on the latest model car/clothes/booze, etc etc. true happiness in life is owning alot of sh*t. every young person knows that. the TV told them so!

Linux_Yes:if they are young employees (most are), there is a good bet they'll sell the sh*t out of their stock because time is not an issue for the young. besides, they have apple handhelds to buy and money to blow on the latest model car/clothes/booze, etc etc. true happiness in life is owning alot of sh*t. every young person knows that. the TV told them so!

You'd hold onto Facebook stock at this point? Sell and then buy when it's at 5 dollars maybe?

I don't get the high valuation for FB on the idea that they *might* invent some way to monetize their user base. That's the equivalent of paying $500 for Apple in 2006 on the idea that they *might* invent a cool phone and sell millions of units of it. If you think something like that might happen, you buy the stock cheap and take a chance that said thing will come to fruition causing an increase in value. You don't pay full value up front. There's no money to be made by doing so, only money to be lost.

moos:I don't get the high valuation for FB on the idea that they *might* invent some way to monetize their user base. That's the equivalent of paying $500 for Apple in 2006 on the idea that they *might* invent a cool phone and sell millions of units of it. If you think something like that might happen, you buy the stock cheap and take a chance that said thing will come to fruition causing an increase in value. You don't pay full value up front. There's no money to be made by doing so, only money to be lost.

And it's worse than that. Their ability to monetize lags in mobil, where their user base is migrating faster than they can keep up.

The way is only lower from here.

On the other hand, they really do ALREADY generate a shiat-ton of money. So it isn't like bubble.bomb

Linux_Yes:if they are young employees (most are), there is a good bet they'll sell the sh*t out of their stock because time is not an issue for the young. besides, they have apple handhelds to buy and money to blow on the latest model car/clothes/booze, etc etc. true happiness in life is owning alot of sh*t. every young person knows that. the TV told them so!

The elderly have plenty of time to watch that stock value tick down to zero.

And it's worse than that. Their ability to monetize lags in mobil, where their user base is migrating faster than they can keep up.

The way is only lower from here.

On the other hand, they really do ALREADY generate a shiat-ton of money. So it isn't like bubble.bomb

I am a buyer in single digits.

I bought five whopping shares just for giggles. My corporate finance profit insists FB's going to be "the next Google," but I'm thinking "FB is several years old now. Shouldn't we be seeing more signs of ahead-of-the-curve thinking by now? Among other things, they should have rolled out a kick-ass mobile version a long time ago.

How exactly are they going to do that when Zuckerberg has deliberately structured it so he will always have 50+% of the shares? Shareholders can scream and cry all they wat, but when it comes down to it, Faebook will do what Zuckerberg wants it to do.